Comments on: Korg expands monotron lineuphttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 30 Mar 2015 20:24:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: bbaltimorebrownhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264993
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264993Hey Rob, if you have a drawer full of these gadgets I’d be happy to take them off your hands and put them to use. I have a band made up of kids from my church that things like this would be perfect for.
]]>By: scrusshttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264824
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:55:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264824They do look as cheaply made as those dollar-store pocket pianos.
]]>By: tarashttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264577
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:01:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264577Why do Monotron demo videos never show them being used to play tunes? Oh.
]]>By: nezzyidyhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264567
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:51:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264567By the way, it is a digital delay on the “Monotron Delay”.
]]>By: ace0415http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264502
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:19:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264502Na, that one’s fine, it doesn’t resemble a piano enough to trigger my id.
]]>By: Mark Sottilarohttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264497
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:18:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264497Nice. Korg’s getting pretty good at this… now stop with the toys and make us an instrument!
]]>By: pizzicatohttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264468
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:47:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264468Heh, I bet you really like the Korg Kaossilator, it has one touchpad…
]]>By: EHhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264441
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:23:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264441After Korg left me with a $1500 paperweight within a year of buying my Zero4 mixer, refusing support and discontinuing the line, they can fuck themselves in the ear and go bankrupt for all I care. They will never get another penny from me regardless of their historical significance.
]]>By: ace0415http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264433
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:11:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264433I have to admit, this is quite literally the thing of nightmares for me. I’m a concert pianist and have had a recurring dream/nightmare where I’m someplace with a “piano”, only there’s always something really weird wrong with the piano, like it has A TINY NUMBER OF REALLY SMALL KEYS, or a semi circular huge keyboard, and some people are always there saying “Play something! Play something!” Even playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is nearly impossible on a keyboard like that, let alone Liszt. Thank you Korg and Boing Boing for bringing my nightmare to life. I will look forward to sleep tonight!! lol
]]>By: Jessehamhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264411
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:52:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264411Or get Reason for a couple hundred more and do all this together on your computer, along with a sequencer…

Methinks there needs to be a flash version.

]]>By: hugh crawfordhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264252
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:43:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264252The Monotron Delay sounds sort of like a pocket Buchla 200. About 20 of them would be fun to have.
]]>By: 3lbFlaxhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264185
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:26:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264185Use a stylus – if you have a Nintendo DS, the stylus that comes with that is great. Usually you get a couple of spares in the box, but you can pick replacement ones up in any game shop. Or an old PDA stylus, or whatever – it doesn’t have to be a finger.

These are problematic new releases. They’re so limited in scope you can’t help but feel infuriated, but at the same time they’ll be damned good fun – and who can refuse damned good fun? Fingers crossed they’ll lead to an expanded Monotribe, that’d be nice.

]]>By: EvilPRGuyhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264150
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:13:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264150I’ve had the original Monotron for a year or so, and it is a really fun instrument, especially considering the price and size. The best thing is you get a fully functional ribbon controller, so you can sort of “play” it a lot more then you can your average sound source.
]]>By: kartwaffleshttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264145
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:56:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264145These look so cool. I just wish you could chain ‘em together and use the output from one to drive or trigger the knobs on a second one.
]]>By: DonBoy2http://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264139
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:47:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264139“Korg expands Monotron lineup” is the greatest headline ever.,
]]>By: flosoflhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264138
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:44:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264138There’s actually a buy direct link, but it just takes you to a link to the vanilla Monotron for US$59.99. I couldn’t find any link to buy the other two direct from Korg. Maybe they’ll put out an iPad app like they did for the Electribe and the MS-20.
]]>By: dculbersonhttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264133
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:40:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264133They forgot the “buttons” half of “buttons and knobs.” Ditch the ribbon!
]]>By: Cicada Maniahttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264128
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:34:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264128I wish they would come up with a better keyboard for these things. You have to have baby fingers to effectively use them. No offense to babies. I’ll still buy it though.
]]>By: Rob Beschizzahttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264110
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:56:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264110Of course, the product page for this pops up a ‘buy now’ overlay, which is just a link to landing pages at “authorized retailers” who don’t sell it yet.

So many companies have websites broken in exactly this manner. Isn’t it amazing that certain types of company are still, after 15 years of the internet, locked into relationships with middlemen who don’t give enough of a shit to even maintain working landing/pre-order pages for live product announcements?

Perhaps they can fix it by having us select a continent, then a country, then a language, to ensure that we at least get the right retailer’s 404’d landing page.

]]>By: terry childershttp://boingboing.net/2011/11/07/korg-expands-mini-synth-lineup.html#comment-1264108
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:53:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=127987#comment-1264108seems like a lot of delay for such a tiny package. i bet it would sound cool through my mini-kaoss pad.
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